By Zachary Moses This is the third article in a series. Click to read Part 1 or Part 2 Day 4: Over the Summit and Into the…Tropics? We departed early this morning to start the trek to the base of the Salkantay Glacier. …Okay, so it would have been super awesome if I’d actually gone the whole trip […]
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Hiking the Salkantay Inca Trail (Part 2)
By Zachary Moses This is the second in a series. Click HERE to read Part 1! Day 3: Continues… After checking into our Cusco hotel, we enjoyed a little free time. Outside of the hotel I saw a little girl stacking oranges in a café window across the street. She turned out to be the […]
Hiking the Salkantay Inca Trail (Part 1)
By Zachary Moses Last September I visited Machu Picchu in Peru for the first time. Before I left, I was told that I needed to stop eating gluten. What? Seriously? What am I supposed to eat? Practically everything has wheat gluten (a binding agent) in it. Since food restrictions are a common concern among our […]
Pedaling in Provence
By Kaleb Smith I have always wanted to go to France. Chalk it up to romantic movies and my own limited “research” with French tourists. When I was asked to assist on a bicycle tour through Provence I jumped at the chance. Getting onto the airplane was easy enough. The flight attendance spoke a mixture […]
Gay Kauai Adventure
By Zachary Moses I finally made it back to Kauai, Hawaii. My absolute favorite island on earth. It’s got everything I love: tropical landscape, perfect weather, lovely people, mountains, ocean and no snow…EVER! I started designing this tour four years ago as an excuse to visit my biggest bucket-list destination. It took two years to […]
Reflections on Smart Ride & Paris
By Phil Sheldon, HE Travel CEO Dear HE Travel Friends, This has been a profound week of contemplation about life and death on both the global and personal levels. Here in the Florida Keys, HE Travel organized a team of riders for the Smart Ride – two days of cycling from Miami to Key West […]